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This leader tasked former SS officer Wilhelm Voss with developing “Factory 333” into a missile program eventually targeted by Operation Damocles. Soon after seizing power in a coup, Ibrahim Abboud brokered a settlement with this leader as required by the World Bank. John Foster Dulles pulled American funding from an infrastructure project after this leader signed an arms deal in Prague. (15[1])This leader briefly resigned during an embarrassing defeat in a conflict sparked by the (*) blockade of the Straits of Tiran, which halted shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba. This leader and Mohamed Naguib led the Free Officers Movement in toppling King Farouk in 1952. For 10 points, name this leader who secured Soviet funding for the Aswan High Dam and nationalized the Suez Canal. ■END■

ANSWER: Gamal Abdel Nasser [or Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein] (Abboud and Nasser negotiated the 1959 Nile Waters Agreement, agreeing to split the reservoir created by the planned Aswan High Dam.)
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